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(N0 ModeL) J. P. MARSH.

CARPET SWEEPER.

No. 473,766. Patented Apr. 26, 18929 I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES P. MARSH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO OTTO R. BARNETT, TRUSTEE, OF SAME PLACE.

CARPET-SWEEPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,766, dated April 26, 1892.

' Application filed November 9, 1891. Serial No. 411,882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMEs P. IVIARSH, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use- 5 ful Improvements in Carpet-Sweepers, of

which the following is a specification.

Carpet-sweepers as ordinarily constructed are not capable of working close to walls and in crevices, and it is therefore necessary to supplement their work by the use of brooms orbrushes. This entails considerable annoyance, as two separate implements must be carried about.

It is the purpose of myinvention to provide I an auxiliary brush or broom as an attachment of the sweeper, said brush being so constructed as to reach any corner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the sweeper and a portion of its handle having my improved attachment. Fig. 2 is a like view of the bail by which the handle is connected to the sweeper. Fig. 3 is a view, partly in section, of a portion of the sweeper and the attached brush. Fig. 4 is a section of the clamp by which the brush is held. Fig. 5 is a cross-section, on a larger scale, of the brush and clamp. Fig. 6 shows in detail the catch by which the sweeper-handle is fastened to the bail.

A, Fig. 1, is the box of the sweeper constructed in any usual manner.

B is the bail connecting the handle and sweeper. It is composed of wires bent to rectangular s'hape. It is pivoted to the sweeper, 5 as is usual, and is secured to the handle O by means of pins 1) b and catch 0, which fit into sockets upon the opposite side of the handle O. The catch 0, (see Fig. 6,) as shown, is in the form of a sleeve which tits over the wire 40 of the bail B and is projected by a spiral springf, surrounding said wire, abutting at one end against the catch 0 and at the other against an adjustable step d, fixed upon the wire. The pins bl) project from a cross-piece 5 e, which is affixed to the bail-wire andwhich conforms to the shape of the handle 0. The handle 0 is thus detachable from the bail B upon the retraction of the catch 0, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 6,such retraction being easily effected by the thumb and finger holds provided upon the catch 0 and upon the stop d. At the lower end of the handle 0 a brush D is fastened by means of a clamp E, which encircles the middle of the brush. Said clamp is hollowed upon its inner surface to fit a ring F, rigidly secured to the brush, the outer surface of said ring forming the segment of a sphere. The clamp E can be tightened upon the ring F by means of the thumbscrew G, Fig. 5, the tightening of said thumbscrew also serving to secure the clamp to the handle 0. This fastening of the clamp permits it to be adjusted to any angle with the handle and to be rotated from time to time, so as to equalize the wear upon it.

The use of the device is obvious. When the handle is attached to the sweeper and the brushis not in use, it is protected by the rectangular frame of the bail surrounding it.

Without confining myself to the precise details herein shown and described, what I claiin,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In acarpet-sweeper, a detachable handle provided with an auxiliary brush attached to its lower end, substantially as described.

2. In a carpet-sweeper, a detachable handle provided with an auxiliary brush, and a clamp connecting said brush and handle, substantially as described.

3. Ina carpet-sweeper, a detachable handle provided with an auxiliary brush at its lower end, and a bail connecting said handle and brush and forming a rectangular frame surrounding said auxiliary brush, substantially as described.

4C. In a carpet-sweeper, a detachable handle provided with an auxiliary brush at its lower end, a bail provided with pins, and a springimpelled catch engaging the opposite sides of 9 said handle, said bail forming a rectangular frame surrounding said auxiliary brush, substantiall y as described.

5. In a carpet-sweeper, a detachable handle O, provided with an auxiliary brush D, con nected thereto by the clamping-ring E, fitted to the spherically-curved ring F, attached to the brush, substantially as described.

JAMES P. MARSH.

Witnesses IRWIN VEEDER, ELSIE NEMETT. 

